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Discover The Web's Absolute BestTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:29 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1Sportscar Racing: Race As One Of The Top Sports Car Teamshttp://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/sportscar-racing-race-as-one-of-the-top-sports-car-teams/
http://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/sportscar-racing-race-as-one-of-the-top-sports-car-teams/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:00:29 +0000http://blog.allmyfaves.com/?p=59390Sportscar Racing is a flash racing game in which you race as one of the top sportscar teams, winning money to enter new races along the way.

Win Races, Gain Money and Enter New Races

Sportscar Racing is a simple but fun racing game with 12 different levels. Each of the levels costs virtual money to unlock, and you win cash and other prizes by doing well in the races. The first level is free, but you begin the game with $1500 in cash to spend on your car. You can then keep racing in order to continue unlocking new levels and features. The gameplay will be familiar to anyone who’s played a racing game before, with a clear start and finish and tons of cars on the track. The controls are simple: use A/D or the left/right arrow keys to steer, press W or the up arrow key to accelerate, s/down to brake, and x/n for a turbo boost. The turbo boost is only available when your meter’s full, but you can fill it up by picking the turbo icons along the track. Turbo is the most important element of success for winning a race, so driving through the turbo icons quickly becomes one of the main objectives of the game (besides, simply, passing the other cars). Some of these icons are situated near the side of the road, which can become tricky. If you veer off the road or hit the billboards alongside the track then your car is slowed down considerably. The game offers a fun way to progress through multiple levels of challenging races, competing as if you’re the driver on one of the world’s top racing teams.

]]>http://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/sportscar-racing-race-as-one-of-the-top-sports-car-teams/feed/0Sondry: A Personal Collection Of Storieshttp://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/sondry-a-personal-collection-of-stories/
http://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/sondry-a-personal-collection-of-stories/#commentsTue, 03 Mar 2015 21:56:59 +0000http://blog.allmyfaves.com/?p=59376Sondry contains a collection of personal stories written by anyone and everyone.

Share Your Personal Story

Sondry is a place to read and share stories. It’s a platform for writers as much as it is for those interested in cool stories or wanting to share one of their own. Anyone can submit their own personal stories, and there’s no real guideline as to what that means. The only requirement is that the stories must be under two thousand words. That’s a relatively steep character limit for the Twitter age, which is why Sondry is a refreshing site. The stories are just the right length — long enough to engage the reader without rambling on for too long. They’re also published in a visually-appealing format that almost mirrors the experience of reading an actual book.

Publish Fiction in The Grout

The other general guiding principle of the site is that stories be honest and personal. This encourages the site’s active and supportive community of readers and writers to get to know you. If personal stories aren’t your style, Sondry also encourages users to publish fiction, poetry and creative writing. There’s a separate section of the site called The Grout that’s dedicated to fiction, while the rest contains non-fiction stories. While there are some engaging fictional stories in The Grout, the non-fiction section of the site is the main focus. It’s also more expansive, separated into categories like Athletics, Childhood, Comedy, Confession and First Time. As you can tell by those category names, Sondry places an emphasis on being brutally honest.

Online Education in 5 Minutes

The hardest part of online education is self-motivation. MOOCs can be difficult for students to complete if they’re not fully invested in the course. Highbrow offers a new, more convenient method of online learning. Rather than spending hours watching video lectures, taking quizzes and working on projects, Highbrow’s online courses are built to be completed in just five minutes a day, for 10 days straight. The courses are sent straight to your e-mail inbox, so you can read them first thing in the morning, on your phone or on the go. It’s not going to teach you advanced skills, but it’s a quick and easy way to familiarize yourself with a new or interesting topic.

10 Day Courses in Any Topic

Highbrow offers courses in Art, Health, History, Literature, Nature, Philosophy, Productivity, Psychology, Science and Startups. Courses range from “Philosophical Ideas That Everyone Should Know” to “The Basics of Growth Hacking and User Acquisition.” I signed up for a course called “Great Short Stories,” and the experience has been as easy and rewarding as you might expect. Each day, for 9 days straight, Highbrow delivers a new short story to my inbox. That’s it. It’s an easy way to start the morning with a little cultural education, with no pressure to dedicate too much time or energy. It’s far too easy to get distracted by unimportant things online, but Highbrow offers a simple solution for people to continue learning and slowly expanding their knowledge about the things that interest them.

]]>http://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/highbrow-expand-your-knowledge-universe/feed/013 GIFs To Brighten Your Dayhttp://blog.allmyfaves.com/viral/13-gifs-to-brighten-your-day/
http://blog.allmyfaves.com/viral/13-gifs-to-brighten-your-day/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 19:42:24 +0000http://blog.allmyfaves.com/?p=57840Thank goodness for whoever came up with the GIF.

Turn That Frown Upside Down

These small images can now freeze any moment in time and make it last forever. Whether it’s a baby doing something cute or an animal acting weird, the GIF is here for us to replay every moment over and over again. Fortunately, some of life’s best moments are captured. When someone turns them into a GIF we can enjoy them and share them to brighten someone else’s day or just make them laugh. We’ve all scrolled over hilarious GIFs on the Internet, or used them to show how we’re feeling. These 13 GIFs are sure to brighten your day. Then pass them on to brighten someone else’s. GIF-tastic!

Hit the Slopes

Alto’s Adventure is an endless runner iPhone game built by Snowman and designed by Harry Nesbitt. The Alto’s Adventure team has created a game with simple, familiar mechanics, but it’s unparalleled in terms of playability and quality of design. Flappy Bird, Crossy Road, Tiny Wings and Temple Run all have essentially the same mechanics, but all of those apps were created in a bright and cartoonish style. Alto’s Adventure’s design and animation, on the other hand, is as smooth as the snow which your character slides down. As you play the game, the background shifts from day to night, and the weather changes from rain to lightening to snow to sunshine. There’s impeccable attention to detail, and it’s easy to get lost in the backdrop as you glide your character down mountain slopes and through woods and villages.

Don’t Hit the Rocks

The goal in Alto’s Adventure is to snowboard as far as you can on each run, doing tricks to gain boosts along the way. Your run ends if you hit an obstacle or fail to complete a jump. There are also special items you can pick up — like coin magnets or hover feathers — and you get extra points depending on how many llamas you collect along the way. In terms of mechanics, there are really only two things to remember: you can jump by tapping the screen, and you can do backflips by holding your finger down. Similar to Tiny Wings, Alto’s Adventure includes a list of three challenges to be completed each level. The challenges encourage you to reach certain distances, land certain tricks, and reach other accomplishments. It’s a way for users to feel a sense of forward progress in the app, despite the fact that it’s basically designed to keep you playing over and over again. If you shell out the $2 to download the app, that’s likely to happen. It’s an addicting game, but you can tell that a lot of time and dedication went into it. The app has a steeper price than most people want to pay for games like this, but it’s definitely worth the cost.

A Twice-Weekly Newsletter of Sales and Stories

Huckberry is an online store that offers men’s clothing and gear. The site sends newsletters to its members twice a week, announcing new sales and deals. The newsletter also contains stories from the site’s Journal section, which is essentially a digital men’s lifestyle magazine. There are stories about travel, food and adventure, with articles like “How To Care For Your Knife” and “Craft Beer in Central America.” The Journal is actually well-written and it contains a bunch of interesting stories, but Huckberry’s focus is on the things that it sells. The site offers a collection of clothing, footwear, outdoor gear and accessories, as well as home & grooming products.

Shop Sales Within The Time Limit

Huckberry’s store does contain some great items, but the site’s main draw is its sale section. A couple times a week, a limited collection of items are made available for sale. There’s also a time limit on the deal. The collections are usually organized around a particular theme – “Made In The USA,” for instance, features Huckberry’s favorite US-made brands. The “National Parks Gift Shop” contains graphic t-shirts featuring national parks. In order to access all of this, the site requires that you sign up with an e-mail or Facebook account. It’s annoying that they don’t let you test the site before signing up, but Huckberry does offer a cool and unique shopping experience.

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http://blog.allmyfaves.com/weekly-faves/documentary-addict-curated-collection-of-documentaries/#commentsMon, 02 Mar 2015 19:24:57 +0000http://blog.allmyfaves.com/?p=59366Documentary Addict is the largest and best curated collection of documentaries on the planet.

Discover Great New (and Old) Docs

Documentary Addict hosts nearly 5,000 documentaries on a wide range of subjects. Almost all of the documentaries are embedded YouTube or Vimeo videos, but they’re typically full-length films on interesting subjects. The fact that they’re available on YouTube, of course, means that they’re free. There’s no need to even log in to Documentary Addict, the site simply displays the best of the world’s docs and lets you choose what you want to watch. In addition to the “Just Added,” “Week’s Most Riveting,” and “Top Documentaries” that can be found on the homepage, Documentary Addict features 26 categories and genres of films.

Stream for Free, Then Join the Discussion

There are categories for “Talks and Lectures,” “Biography,” “History,” and even specific topics like “9/11″ on Documentary Addict. The site also has some features that go a step beyond just finding and featuring YouTube documentaries. There’s a relatively lengthy description beneath each embedded video, as well as an actively-used comment section. The right-hand panel of the site lets users browse and participate in all the comment discussions happening in real-time. Other information like the film’s IMDb rating and DA community rating is also displayed. Each video page also has a “light switch,” which removes all the background elements and displays the video above a black background. There’s tons of interesting content waiting to be discovered on Documentary Addict, including prominent films like Food Inc. For those bored with Netflix’s offerings and looking for a good doc to watch, this is the web’s best free option.

There’s a latte love in your coffee

In today’s world we are all so busy that we don’t really notice the little things most of the time. One of the most popular times to rush through our day is when we stop at our favorite coffee spot for a morning or afternoon pick me up. Not to many of us sit and enjoy our drink, we get a to-go cup and go on our merry way. But sometimes when we don’t stop we miss something beautiful right in our own cup — coffee art. Talented baristas create images in the foam of our drinks, and even though it’s something small, I believe they put a smile on people’s faces. Andrew Alcala is a talented barista creating images in people’s morning cups of joe. Now that’s a latte love. Next time you’re at your favorite coffee spot, take a minute and sit and enjoy. You never know if you’ll get something special with your drink.

]]>http://blog.allmyfaves.com/viral/coffee-art-with-a-latte-love/feed/0Top 10 Online Games of the Week: Sports Car Racing, Cubestern, Epic Boss Fighter 2…http://blog.allmyfaves.com/games/top-10-online-games-of-the-week-sports-car-racing-cubestern-epic-boss-fighter-2/
http://blog.allmyfaves.com/games/top-10-online-games-of-the-week-sports-car-racing-cubestern-epic-boss-fighter-2/#commentsThu, 26 Feb 2015 17:33:20 +0000http://blog.allmyfaves.com/?p=59339Start your weekend with the best games of the week! We already took care of the sorting to bring you only the very best of what the games world has to offer. We hope you enjoy these as much as we did.Join us on our Online Games page and discover the best free games. And check out these awesome Board games too!

Explore the Evolution of Bond Cars

James Bond’s cars are almost as famous as the fictional spy himself. Automobiles have been an integral part of every Bond film since the series’ inception, and fans always anticipate which makes and models will be featured next. Bond Cars is an interactive guide to the history and evolution of all of those vehicles. The site was created by Evans Halshaw, a UK-based new and used car retailer. It was created with a cartoonish design, using bright, bold colors to accentuate each vehicle. The timeline begins with the Sunbeam Alpine that was featured in 1962’s Dr. No. It’s described as the first James Bond car, and the site claims that it had “no alterations by Q’s lab.” Every vehicle that’s featured on the site contains a similar bit of trivia or information.

Save Any Image as a Desktop Wallpaper

Bond Cars‘ timeline can be navigated simply by scrolling downwards. Using the standard Bond transition of a closing circle, the colors and animation change as you progress throughout the site. There are also interactive features built-in to some of the cars, such as the ability to slide your cursor across a cartoonish version of the vehicle to reveal its true form. The site also offers the opportunity to download any of the vehicles as a wallpaper, or to embed the page on any other website as an infographic image. For Bond fans (or fans of cars/good web design), Evans Halshaw’s Bond Cars is a must-visit site.